Samuel Bodman

Samuel Bodman (26 November 1938-7 September 2018) was the US Secretary of Energy from 31 January 2005 to 20 January 2009, succeeding Spencer Abraham and preceding Steven Chu.

Biography
Samuel Bodman was born in Chicago, Illinois in 1938, and he worked as a professor of chemical engineering at MIT. In 1983, he became president and COO of Fidelity Investments, and he became chairman, CEO, and director of the Cabot Corporation after joining it in 1987. In 2001, he became Deputy Secretary of Commerce under President George W. Bush, and he went on to serve as Deputy Secretary of the Treasury from 2005. In 2005, he became Secretary of Energy, and he left office with the end of the Bush administration on 20 January 2009. He died in El Paso, Texas in 2018.